Learning About Native Insects in New Zealand

We have been learning about creepy crawlies around the world. This time we are learning about our native insects. We had to search and research to find 3 native insects. We had to make a google drawing about the three native insects we found out about. We had to be with a buddy. My buddy is Talisa. We had a map and we had to find out where they mostly live in New Zealand. We had a map and we pointed out where they lived. Then in the slide for each of our three native insect we had to have at least five facts about. Then we had to choose what native insect we were going to make and how we would make it. Me and Talisa decided to do the giraffe weevil because we wanted to make a long neck. We haven't finished our final copy but I hope we will finish it next week.

Here is our slide:


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Filipino Salu Salo

My culture celebrates our Independence day. The Filipinos were once freed by the Spanish people. Our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal was killed because he was defending our country from the invasion of the Spanish. Every year, we celebrate our Independence Day from being free from the Spanish. On Friday night June 14th , all the Filipino primary Students went to Hornby High School auditorium . The Salu Salo was organised by the Hornby High School Filipinos. It began at 6pm-8pm. It was a long night. There were so many different performances by the Filipinos. We had to miss our buddy class to practice our performance. We danced the Filipino folk dance called "Itik-Itik," which is a performance about the ducklings. Some of the Filipinos brought Filipino food with them. We wore our traditional clothes. We performed today at our school Assembly.

Here is the performance:

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Get Wise ASB Visit

On Wednesday Get Wise ASB visited our school. Her name was Amy. She told us how to save money. The word CASH meant something about saving enough money and buy what you wanted. C was for clear, you had to make sure you know what your saving for. A is for action you have to figure out how to save money by doing something for some people. S is either for spending or saving. You can spend but you have to also save the money. H is for how long will it take for you to achieve your goal.  Then we played a game. We had to be in groups. My group was called Banana-man. Each group had a goal to buy and had to know how much it was. If the 100 dollar note was had up we had to be quiet. The first two groups to be quiet as possible get a one dollar coin. The money was only pretend. Our goal was to buy a hamster for $300. Then we had to figure out how we would receive money by doing something for people. Our group decided to walk peoples dogs to earn money. The other team next to us heard what we were talking about. We had to be mimes and act our what we were doing to save money. It was quite fun. The group who had the most coins won. We had 7 coins same with the other group. The two other groups had 9 and the other group had 5. The people who had $9 had too verse by doing paper scissors rock. The group who won was the group with girls.

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Dancing for Our Reading Task

For our 3rd reading task we had to either learn the 'Cha Cha' dance or create a flowchart showing how to do it. The girls of the Takahe group chose that they wanted to learn how to dance the Cha Cha dance so we were all in one group except for the boys they made a flowchart. We had only been practising for yesterday and today. We had now finished and we had created our final copy of the Takahe girls dancing. The girls that i was with dancing was Freya, Michaela, Nevaeh, Talisa and me. It was kind difficult to create positions and make a difference t the dance we were learning.

Here is the video: (it is so bad)
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